make a cool / useful firefox plugin

Hi all,

I want to read a newly coming URL from URL bar of firefox

browser from my plugin. Important thing is that my plugin does not

get this URL, but it will be get loaded to browser.

This problem is is embed youtube videos.

Please help me.

Thanks,
Gajendra

I would like to create a firefox plugin that tells the user the estimated time it will take to download a file.

I want to create an extension for Firefox which reads URL user want to navigate and redirect to other another some other URL. I read a lot of tutorial but I didn’t able to figure out how to read URL user entered.

Can anyone help ?

Thanks In Advance

Ajit

I spent some more time and cleaned up my draft. I got preferences to work and added quick keys and keyboard shortcuts. Easier than I thought it would be! I have posted it to Firefox to be added to the site, I look forwarding to building my next one.

Wow! That was easier than I thought! I built my first draft of a Firefox plugin last night. I plan to update it today, and try and submit it to Firefox for inclusion on their website.

At last, a comprehensive tutorial on how to make a Firefox extension. I’ve tried this before a few times and never quite got it to work for me.

Watch out Firefox users. All my crazy plans will now come to fruition.

I was missing the “one key disables the popup blocker” feature from most of the old popup blockers… so I did a little extension that toggles complete popup blocking on and off (on = no popup at all ; off = only filtered popups) when you press a few keys (CTRL+SHIFT+Q)
-> http://www.patheticcockroach.com/mpam4/index.php?p=64

It was fun

OK, I have a small, doable idea. One that’s related to what I do each and every work day. My idea? Right click on a link and have some substitution take place in the URL string.

Here’s the deal. I do web development for a living. Every day, I get these tickets for changes and improvements to our various web properties. The ticket owner enters the URL of the page on our live web site.

Naturally, we don’t develop on the live server. Here’s where the Firefox extension comes in. I’d like to be able to right click on a link, and have part of the link replaced or extended. This way, I can open links on my dev. box and do my work.

Eventually I’d like to add a an options tab to allow regular expressions (another of my 43 things) to be used.

I’m ready to do this and have most of the product fleshed out on paper and electronically. The issue is that I cannot get the tutorial at roachfiend.com working.

Apparently there’s a new “Firefox Hacks” book coming out from O’Reilly but I’m not sure I should have to spend $30 for a book just to learn to do FF extensions.

Any help?

I’ve finished my extension! you can check it out at:
http://philmccluskey.com/projects/flickrfox